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North Carolina unemployment when Trump took office: 4.9 percent North Carolina unemployment now: 6.5 percent Washington, D.C. — Today, President Donald Trump will arrive near Greenville, North Carolina, to hold a rally in an airplane hangar at Pitt-Greenville Airport. His event will be the fifth of nine scheduled in-person rallies following the revelation of his...
Iowa unemployment when Trump took office: 3.4 percent Iowa unemployment now: 6 percent Washington, D.C. — Today, President Donald Trump will arrive near Des Moines, Iowa, to hold a rally in an airplane hanger at Des Moines International Airport. His event will be the fourth of seven scheduled in-person rallies following the revelation of his...
Pennsylvania unemployment when Trump took office: 5.2 percent Pennsylvania unemployment now: 10.3 percent Washington, D.C. — Today, President Donald Trump will hold a rally near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in an airplane hanger at John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria Airport. His event will be the third of five scheduled in-person rallies following the revelation of his COVID-19 diagnosis on...
Washington, D.C. — Last night, a new report from The New York Times confirmed that the Trump administration’s former Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his deputy, Rod J. Rosenstein, were a “driving force” behind the president’s child separation policy, arguing that they “need[ed] to take away the children” regardless of their age or the traumatic consequences of these...
Washington, D.C. — Today, the U.S. Senate blocked a procedural motion to defund the Trump administration's lawsuit to terminate the Affordable Care Act, including protections for preexisting conditions. Maura Calsyn, managing director of Health Policy at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, released the following statement: Senate Republicans made clear that they are accomplices...
Florida unemployment when Trump took office: 4.6 percent Florida unemployment now: 7.4 percent Washington, D.C. — Tomorrow, President Donald Trump will arrive in Sanford, Florida, to hold a rally in an airplane hanger at Orlando Sanford International Airport. The event will be his 18th non-socially distanced rally in one month, putting Americans at risk despite having known...
Washington, D.C. — On Thursday, October 1, 2020, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) will join the Center for American Progress Action Fund for a press call to discuss the findings of a new report revealing the innumerable ways repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) during...
Minnesota unemployment when Trump took office: 3.8 percent Minnesota unemployment now: 7.4 percent Washington, D.C. — Tomorrow, President Donald Trump will arrive in Duluth, Minnesota, to hold a rally in an airplane hanger at Duluth International Airport. The event will be his 15th non-socially distanced rally this month, putting Americans at risk despite having known the dangers...
Washington, D.C. — After President Donald Trump announced his pick to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Supreme Court seat, Neera Tanden, CEO of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, issued the following statement: President Trump and Senate Republicans are attempting to rush through a Supreme Court nominee who would vote to take...
Pennsylvania unemployment when Trump took office: 5.2 percent Pennsylvania unemployment now: 10.3 percent Washington, D.C. — Tomorrow, President Donald Trump will arrive near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to hold a rally in an airplane hangar at Harrisburg International Airport in Middletown. This event will be the 14th non-socially distanced rally held by Trump this month, where he has...